Westpac bucks cultural trend

The Victorian Arts Centre lies at the heart of the southern state’s capital and its cultural endeavours. Nothing wrong with that!

Of course even with the Premier,
Ted Baillieu
, as Minister for the Arts it needs a little help from the great and good of Melbourne and beyond to ensure the show goes on. This year’s annual report lists any number of contributors. There’s the late
Richard Pratt
and his wife Jeanne, Baillieu and Sarah Myer, Marc and Eva Besen, Sam and Minnie Smorgon, the Gandel family,
Solomon
and Rosie Liew and Dame
Elisabeth Murdoch
.

These “Arts Angels Individuals" are accompanied by some “Arts Angels Corporations".

The
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
is on the list, as is
National Australia Bank
and the
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
.

It did prompt the Prince to wonder: where’s
Westpac
? The banking oligopoly is not known for one bank moving where the others don’t (the Prince once blithely assumed that there was a law that required them to all do the same thing, but that’s completely wrong. A lot of them just have the same idea at the same time, that it would be a terrific idea to raise rates).